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** This folder includes the datasets, R file and STATA do-file used for the CPS paper "Strategic Logic of Elite Purges in Dictatorships"
** by Jun Koga Sudduth. 

** (1) "CPS_Elitepurge_JunSudduth.do"  --   STATA do-file for empirical analyses for the main text and the online appendix 
** (2) "CPS_Elitepurge_JunSudduth.R"   --   R commandes used to create figures reported in the manuscript and the online appendix 
** (3) "CPS_Elitepurge_Sudduth.dta"      -- The data in STATA format 
** (4) "CPS_Elitepurge_Sudduth.txt"       -- The data in the text format 
** (5) "VCVmatrix.... .csv"   -- The variance-covariance matrix that are used to create figures 